A small sigh of relief to all those who drive to Panjim by their four wheelers, loose half their energy looking for parking and the other half of the energy is lost walking from one place to another to finish their daily chores within the city of Panjim before they get to their parked four wheelers.  People, did you guys even know that we now have the small EV a/c Kadamba buses plying from the Kadamba Bus Stand all through the city of Panjim, so you can hop on the bus on its route and hop off where ever you need to get dropped just for Rs 10/-. Walking is indeed great, no doubts on that, but imagine walking in the scorching heat or the pouring rain.

 

The bus route is like this...

Starts at the small Maruti Mandir on the Kadamba bus stand, goes post ferry point, via Don Bosco School, takes a semicircle at the Caculo island, passes by Taj Vivanta St. Inez, Kala Academy, on D.B Road it takes a left near Campal Ganesh Mandir from on the Bal Bhavan Road, and takes a left just after fire station.

 

The bus continues past P.W.D office at St. Inez, back   to Taj Vivanta and on to 18th June Road. Straight past Panjim Church goes down the Fontainhas slope, past old Income Tax Building the bus takes the old Patto bridge and takes a right turn to go past Sesa Ghor, past Hotel Ginger, Art & Culture / Central Library Building, moves ahead takes a left to pass by Ritz Classic. It travels still further takes another left and comes on to the main road back at Kadamba bus stand.

 

And what's more? While conversing with the driver and conductor of the bus, I was given to understand that there one bus plying every 15 to 30 minutes, so your wait is not long at any given point in time.

 

Exactly from where it started the trip, the bus gets back, picking and dropping office goers, senior citizens school and college goers alike. I just got to know about this bus today and had an hour at hand before I moved on to the next chore of the day. So, I decided to take a trip down the hustling and bustling roads of Panjim on which I, as a growing kid, once held my dad's hand, and walked, when these roads used to be empty and look so wide. A great initiative in my opinion